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You can’t have more than 10 years of experience on Rails!

This is why programmers dislike account people / business people…

So last week, I was selected for an interview for Sr. Web Developer.
The job sounded interesting so I took time out of my day to have phone
interview. I noticed the organization mostly programmed in Ruby on
Rails, but then it said PHP and other languages and I was like okay.
See below for the description.

So the interview went fairly well, I really never address the issue
Ruby on Rails, there was also some confusion as to Bootstrap. According
to the project manager Bootstrap is also responsive. (No kidding?) I
said that’s great because I use Twitter Bootstrap and that is responsive
as well. (I was playing games at that point) Then I was told they where
not the same? I don’t know if that was the breaking point, but it was
amusing.

Finally, I was told I would get notification of the outcome of the
interview. I think that is fair since I took time out of my day… a
certain level of professionalism and courtesy. So I shot a quick email
back just making an inquiry if there was a decision since I hadn’t heard
anything. I received the following in an email.

Oh well, I will live to fight another day… But then I remember that I
follow @DHH on twitter and Ruby is kind of new. (Just an FYI @DHH
created Rudy and he did it ~10 years ago. I follow @DHH not because of
Rails, mostly because of his libertarian oriented tweets, much like
myself.) So to amuse myself I asked him:

We
build mostly in Rails and Django, with the latest client side
frameworks like Angular and Bootstrap. If you’ve been programming
professionally for around a decade, have a few years of full stack web
experience (Rails, Django, PHP, Java Spring, and similar), and love
learning, you’ll be a great fit.

What we offer:

Flexible schedule, work from one of our offices (Denver and New York) or from home anywhere in the US

About us:

We
continuously strive to make Dolphin Micro a great place to
work–interesting enough to be a lifelong career and profitable enough
that it’s the last job you’ll ever need.

We
have a talented sales team that finds us cool clients and challenging
projects, super smart developers that love working in small teams to
invent and ship software, and business-savvy project managers that pave
the way for our developers and get things done.

Interested in joining? Send us your resume and a brief paragraph on why, with the subject line “sounds like fun.”

*
Please note that Dolphin Micro screens all potential employees
carefully before extending any job offers. If you are selected for a
second interview, you will be asked to consent to a criminal background
check. Only those consenting to a background check will be considered
for employment.